US Plant Patent PP10719
Raphael
Neoregelia plant named `Raphael`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 11, 2017. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP10719
- Filed
- July 11, 1997
- Granted
- December 8, 1998
- Expires
- July 11, 2017
- Inventor
- SKOTAK JR CHESTER
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Neoregelia plant named `Raphael`, characterized by its leaves with a greyed-yellow margin (R.H.S. 162A), the margin of the leaf above the sheath is suffused red-purple (R.H.S. 63A), the upper surface of the leaf has a dark green to greyed-purple center (R.H.S. 147A-187A) depending upon light conditions and the lower surface of the leaf is lighter green (R.H.S. 148A-B); the innermost leaves at the center of the rosette, when in flower, are dark red-purple (R.H.S. 59A); the innermost leaves at the center of the rosette hold their color for 3 to 5 months during and after flowering; and the plant produces large numbers of offsets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct Neoregelia plant named `Raphael`, as illustrated and described.
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